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Neurocomputational Poetics

How the Brain Processes Verbal Art

Arthur M. Jacobs

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English
Anthem Press
14 November 2023
This book introduces a new thrilling field

neurocomputional poetics, the scientific 'marriage' between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience.

Its goal is to uncover the secrets of verbal art reception and to explain how readers come to understand and like literary texts. The book offers state-of-the-art computational models and methods allowing to predict which crucial textual features of prose and poetry, such as syntactic and semantic complexity or emotion potential, interact with reader features, such as empathy or openness to experience, in shaping a literary reading act with its neuronal, experiential and behavioural correlates. It contains hands-on practical examples on how to do computational text analyses of books and poems that can answer questions like:

Which is Jane Austen's most beautiful book? Which poet created the most fitting poetic metaphors? or Which author of plays of the nineteenth century was the most literary?

The model and methods introduced in the book help explain what makes texts comprehensible and likeable and how they affect our body and mind. It offers game-changing insights for both fundamental and applied science that will affect standard metrics of readability and the way text processing and verbal art reception are viewed in literary studies, education, psychology or the media sciences and industry.
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Imprint:   Anthem Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781839987700
ISBN 10:   1839987707
Series:   Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being
Pages:   288
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Arthur Jacobs is Professor of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology at Freie Universitt Berlin (FUB). He is (co-)author of more than 250 scientific publications in the fields of reading research, psycholinguistics, affective neuroscience and neurocognitive poetics, among which is the book Gehirn und Gedicht (Brain and Poetry, 2011; with R. Schrott).

Reviews for Neurocomputational Poetics: How the Brain Processes Verbal Art

"“This is a game-changing book which opens up the middle ground of reading, finding ways of connecting the details of the text to the cognitive and neurological structures which we bring as readers, all the way from individual sounds up to whole plot structures. It combines brain science, linguistics, and literary criticism and throughout demonstrates how experimental methods can open up new ways of understanding old problems.” -- Nigel Fabb, University of Strathclyde, UK. ""A pioneer in the study of how literary works stir our emotions and transport us to faraway worlds, Jacobs recounts his decades-long personal journey that, through neuroscience and computational linguistics, culminates in a fascinating account of how this magic happens."" -- Emanuele Castano, University of Trento and The Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy"


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